Summary : New video with 2026 predictions for AI & UX | AI analyzing usability test recordings | Character consistency still difficult | Google DeepMind documentary film | Amazon’s ecommerce agent Rufus does well | AI renews drug prescriptions | Problems using Mechanical Turk for user research   UX Roundup for January 19, 2026. (Nano Banana Pro) 2026 Predictions: The Music Video The article with my 18 predictions for AI and UX in 2026  is very long (almost 10,000 words), so I

Summary:  Accelerating AI capabilities will shift focus from raw intelligence to autonomous agents and Generative UI, making UX the primary business moat. Multimodal integration and physical AI will revolutionize workflows, rendering static interfaces and single-purpose tools obsolete. However, progress faces hurdles like compute shortages and a widening class divide between premium and free-tier users. Let’s peek into Jakob’s crystal ball to see what’s ahead for 2026. (Nano

The 70 correct answers to the quiz about developments in UX and AI in 2025, including links to the full articles with more information.

Summary:  70 hard questions about the last year in UX and AI. Did you master the fast pace of recent developments? Give the quiz a try and count up your score! Do you dare take my quiz? (GPT Image 1.5) I published more than 100 articles last year (see my list of the year’s top 10 articles and 10 main themes ). This quiz probes topics across the gamut of my coverage. Try answering these questions to check how much you learned from what happened in 2025. I have posted the answe

Summary:  For each month of 2025, here is the best image I made that month. The collection shows the progress of AI-generated images over the year, in terms of the complexity of imagery that creators can now attempt. I used 5 different image tools to create the winning pictures, using GPT Image-1 the most. (Nano Banana Pro) 2025 made one thing clear: image rendering  is no longer the hard part. Editorial selection  is. When you can generate dozens of plausible variations in a

Summary : Predictions for UX in 2025 revisited | 2025 saw major paradigm changes in AI | Simple AI reduces doctors’ burnout | Fast sales growth for providers of useful AI services UX Roundup for December 22, 2025. (Nano Banana Pro) Merry Christmas Merry Christmas from UX Tigers and Jakob Nielsen. (Nano Banana Pro) I hope you have a wonderful and peaceful holiday season. Watch my UX Christmas Song  (YouTube, 2 min.), and compare with my 2024 Christmas Song  to appreciate how f

Summary:  AI disrupted UX practice across multiple vectors: research methodology, interface ontology, temporal dynamics, economic structures, and distribution channels. UX professionals must reconceptualize their discipline from artifact-centric design toward orchestrating intent-driven systems while cultivating individual agency as the primary professional competency. (Nano Banana Pro) I published about 330,000 words  across 100 articles on UX Tigers in 2025 (including this

Summary : How People Use AI for professional and creative jobs | AI conducts user interviews at scale, converting qualitative quotes to quant data | When and how to hire the first designer in a startup company | Prompt engineering debunked: Don’t specify a mastery persona | Longitudinal user research needed to judge AI agent usability | A new generation of power turbines may meet the need for AI electricity | GPT 5.2 132% better than human experts on economically valuable tas

Summary:  AI video models advanced significantly in 2025, particularly in avatar expressiveness, enabling me to produce much better videos than in 2024. Further improvements are needed in 2026 to realize the potential of individual creators. Here are my 10 most popular videos, as determined by audience clicks and viewing durations. (Nano Banana Pro) I thought that 2024 was the year of AI video and that 2025 would be the year of AI agents . There certainly was strong growth in

Summary : AI exhibits better empathy than human clinicians | Compute limits should be made transparent in the user experience | User interface modes usually lower usability | Seedream 4.5 image model now with improved text rendering | How feasible is it to build an AI company outside Silicon Valley | The Kling video model now generates speaking characters UX Roundup for December 8, 2025. (Nano Banana Pro) Creation by Discovery New music video about how creators explore the la

Summary:  Three storylines from different categories of product design: apps, websites, and consumer electronics, all told in comic-strip format. Different cartooning styles are used to convey varying levels of detail, including a humorous version told through animal characters.   I made all the comics in this article with Nano Banana Pro. I have a systematic 12-step process for planning, running, and analyzing a usability study . Unfortunately, the write-up of the full proce

Summary : UX should quest for profits, not a seat at the table | In-depth AI reviews of draft academic papers | Emotional lip-synching of avatars when singing | Time needed to build AI supercompute data centers | Discover user needs UX Roundup for December 1, 2025. (Nano Banana Pro) Abandon Your CEO Crush Matthew Holloway published a great article deploring design leaders’ fixation on reporting directly to CEOs . He wrote that this resembles adolescent crushes: idealized fant

Summary:  Google's Nano Banana Pro takes AI image generation mainstream, making professional visual communication accessible to everyone. Integrating with Gemini 3 Pro's reasoning engine, it creates professional infographics, comic strips, and visual resumes instantly. While imperfect, with occasional typos, excessive verbosity,  and generic default styling, it outperforms competitors for practical applications. This advancement will transform how we explain complex informati

Summary : AI helps old users stay creative | Microsoft, Google, and our AI Future | Automatically generate on-brand campaigns | AI-created digital storytelling is worth $2 billion | AI music valued even higher than AI slides UX Roundup for November 24, 2025. (Nano Banana Pro) Happy Thanksgiving (Seedream 4) Happy Thanksgiving from UX Tigers and Jakob Nielsen! I made a short song with my mascot tiger celebrating Thanksgiving , combining animations from Seedance Pro 1, Grok Ima

Summary:  Google's new Gemini 3 Pro is making waves, but not just for its top leaderboard scores. The real story? Generative UI: interfaces that AI designs just for you, right when you need them. Users overwhelmingly prefer these custom-made interfaces over regular websites (90% of the time!). Sure, human designers still win by a hair, but with AI improving exponentially and humans staying roughly the same, that won't last long.   Google will be hammering out individualized u